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an act of america wanting to expand its influence. >> but did he make any headway with the government in afghanistan plagued by corruption? and the f.b.i. rounds up nine members of a militia-style group in michigan charged with plotting violence against police. >> they could kill a lot of people just by themselves. >> what does it tell us about the threat of domestic terrorism? those stories this week from the reporters who cover them. dan balz of "the washington post," john harwood of cnbc and "the new york times," martha rad ditz of nbc news and michael duffy of time magazine. >> award-winning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens. live from our nation's capital, this is "washington week" with gwen ifill. produced in association with "national journal." corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> i've been growing algae for 35 years. most people try and get rid of algae. we're trying to grow it. the algae are very beautiful. they come in blue or red, golden, green. it can be converted into biofuels that we could someday run our cars on. using energy

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middle america? >> no, that's not going to happen. the new workers don't forget gm and chrysler and ford only are going to get $14 an hour to work on the line. those are not the jobs -- gwen: down from? >> down from at least double that and with benefits a little higher. and you remember in the good old days they were getting a lot of overtime. so an auto worker could basically leave high school and make enough money to buy a house and two cars and maybe a place up north. but the auto industry is changing and there's a lot more start-ups like tesla and they are getting government loans to actually build assembly plants. in fact fisker just closed today on a $500 million energy department loan they bought an old gm factory in delaware and they're going to assemble electric cars in a couple years. the industry is changing. it's going to look a lot like it did maybe in detroit in the 1900's. >> gwen, you will not be able to drive the giant hummer forever. gwen: don't even start with me. somewhere joe biden is smiling about that electric car in delaware. well, there's no rest for the we